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Updated: May 29(Super Talent releases the first 256GB flash drive for USB 3.0)

Well, what do you know. Just a few weeks ago Kingstonstunned us with the release of the world’s first 128GB Flash Drive. And before we even have room to breathe they top it off with the world’s first 256GB flash drive. That’s right – 256GB of space in a tiny portable USB disk. We surely live in crazy, fast-paced times! So on that note, say hello to the DataTraveler 300.

At first this miracle of modern technology was only available through direct ordering which made sense given the 1K price tag. But then the DT 300 became openly available in Europe, Africa & Asia while the US was left out. Why? Because as it turns out, Kingston refined their focus for this specific market and came up with a completely exclusive American design. The result is the DataTraveler 310:

I don’t know about you, but to me it definitely has a US-feel to it. It actually reminds of a 60s Corvette merged with a modern Yukon XL. So you gotta wonder what resumes the architects at Kingston can boast with.

Of course the comparison with a Corvette may lack in terms of speed but the new USB 3.0 standard is about to fix that. So here we have with the first super speed 256GB flash drive, who also guarantees super security: the so called SuperCrypt by Super Talent. I know, that’s 4 times “super” in one sentence – but hey, credit where credit’s due.

You may ask yourself of course, why would I need a 256GB flash drive? Well, maybe you’d like to back up your laptop, or both of them or all three of them. Or maybe you’d like to copy your entire DVD-collection or/and/or/or/and. The endless storage possibilities of this amazing capacity can be marveled at in the list below. But don’t hold your breath – maybe the DataTraveler 3000 is just around the corner.

Our technology is realy fast paced isn’t it? I remember my first 20 Gb. Hard drive about the size of a block and now we can see a 250 Gb. flash drive in sticks. What more can we expect for the next 5 years? maybe a Terabyte on a microstick is next.

Thanks for the information, Scott! So that explains why the DataTraveler 300 hasn’t really been available in the US. I guess that model didn’t fly as well as in other countries so Kingston has come up with a smaller, refined design just for the American market. I will update accordingly! Once again thanks, you’ve been a great resource for the past few days Scott.

Donny, as you can glean from the post, the DT300 has a transfer rate of 20MB/s and 10MB/s (read/write) while the DT310 is a bit faster with 25MB/s and 12MB/s respectively. As for reliability, I’m pretty sure Kingston has put a lot of effort into that. Of course one can never be absolutely certain and user experiences usually vary. But just the fact that they give out a 5 year warranty speaks for it IMO.

Nice. Cool. Kingston is making the world of computers more interesting to live in. Flash drives such as this one is really a big help for people like me who want to save time and money. With the help of this flash disk we can save and store any amount of data we want to. Thanks for sharing wonderful information.
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Gray,
if you check out the bottom of my 128GB post you can read more about the fake flash drives. As you can see fakes exist for pretty much every capacity, however they are very rare for 256GB. No worries though, I’m doing my best to filter out these obvious fakes from my referral links. If you still find a cheap high capacity drive that sounds to good to be true you can be assured it is.

@DT I actually saw a 512gb flash drive up for bid on Ebay about a month ago….i don’t know if it was real or fake but owner did post up a screenshot of the available space. I’m not sure what the brand name was….it was being sold out of the U.K. It sold for about $185

@Memory: That had to be fake. They’re very clever with creating false properties screenshots which will show up on your own computer too. You can check out my 128GB flash drive post for an example of that.

I just bought a Kingston Datatraveler 310 256GB USB Flash drive from a Chinese seller on Ebay for $16.99 including shipping. So far he’s sold 101 of them. Of course it’s fake, but for that price it’ll be fun to play with and see what the actual HOLDING capacity is. I can impress my friends and in the end most likely get my money refunded from paypal.

Who knows, maybe I’ll buy a bunch of them and give ‘em away as xmas gifts and impress the hell out of all my friends

geopro,
so what is the actual holding capacity – 2GB? 4GB? Have you checked yet? Would be funny if it was just 256 MEGAbyte. Sure, your friends would be impressed initially but later they would be upset with you. No?

No offence to anyone one here…but i have a feeling that everything is going to be stored virtually pretty soon anyways. Unfortunately i don’t know how much longer flash drives are going to survive…:(
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Hello ROVing,
usually the DT 200 costs between $350-500. So its likely that this guy is selling them as fakes (probably a lower capacity DT model painted over to look like the 128GB). There’s always the possibility that these are from clearance sales, overstocks, insolvencies etc but its unlikely. What makes me suspicious about this seller is that he has feedback only as a buyer but not seller. So thats a red flag right there.

Why do they let this happen? Ive been wondering that myself. Ive had emails going back and forth with ebay and the point is simply that consider the large volume of listings generated on ebay everyday its pretty much impossible to identify all the ones with fraudulent intentions. Sadly ebay seems to rely almost exclusively on the “report a suspicious/fradulent listing” feature. So by all means, if you guys see one, report one. Ebay is usually very quick in removing the listings if the suspicion holds up. Hopefully this will discourage a percentage of the scammers.

Most laptops/desktops do not use drives of that size for primary drives. I think that HDD will remain in the archival storage space for some time after it has been replaced for OS drives, as DB mentioned.

So flash drives are getting cheaper and cheaper-but I recently noticed that a site called Woot that focuses on daily deals had a deal for one of these. I wouldn’t be surprised if it came up again as that happens all the time so keep a look out!